Word: ethics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born with a chip on my shoulder as big as an elephant." The "aunt" who raised him turned out to be his mother, who apparently refused to accept him as her son because he had no legal father. As a lad, Hume soon developed the ethic: "If you have an enemy...
Sometimes the expansiveness of the business ethic raises cries of monopoly, illegal practices, or coercion; and the HSA, placed in the context of a sensitive and critical student body, has suffered from the awareness of a non-business community that a stranger is in its midst...
...latest issue, far from being a reversal of the trend towards well-dressed mediocrity, is as representative of the pseudo-sophisticate ethic as any of its predecessors. Except for one fine piece of reporting on the activities of David R. ("Yours for racial integrity") Wang, the December Ivy is as stupidly snide as its models--the Luce magazines...
...which is very embarrassing to the news-stand reader looking for a chuckle of escape between the New York Times and the radio broadcast. This is Lampy's comedy ethic--to laugh at the aberrations of modern...
...Gestapomen of World War II. Confronted with the Hitler terror, Camus cried "What values did we have . . . which we could oppose to his negation? None." In The Plague (1947), a parable of the Resistance couched in terms of a city under sentence of bubonic death, Camus voiced his social ethic: "All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us . . . not to join forces with the pestilences." In The Rebel (1952), Camus turned to attack the pestilence of modern revolutionary ideologies: "Revolt and revolution both wind...